[Changes in sexual reactivity in young women in Czechoslovakia]

In a group of 2425 gynaecological patients during their stay in the spa of Frantiskovy Láznĕ the authors examined by interviews the marital sex life of the patients. They divided them into sub-groups by decades of their birth year (1911 to 1970). In women born between 1961 and 1970 they recorded a marked rise in the number of women who experienced only rarely orgasm during coitus (26%). This change was explained by the action of stressing factors of the social environment. The authors express the view that changes in the orgastic capacity of women are rather than sexual appetence a sensitive and useful indicator of psychological influences.